I moved from PHP to C# jobs because thought it will be more fun.

Have to agree, PHP codebases also were nice organized, bigger repos, mostly web apps / company backoffice apps and so on. Personally, products were more interesting.

With today dotnet state, it really suits well for API development / microservices / integrations / we had many workers - jobs running, queue subscribers, K8S, good test coverage, open telemetry.

Even migrating from .NET Framework wasn't so big pain.

Job postings sucks nowadays for all stacks.